Section 1
SECTION 1. The Consulting Engineer to the Commission, the principal assistant engineer, the assistant engineer in. charge of railways, the chief of supervisory, and such other employees as may be designated for duties in connection with the overseeing and inspection of public works, shall be entitled to a per diem of two dollars and fifty cents. United States currency or its equivalent in Philippine currency, for each day such officer or employee is actually traveling, or away from Manila or his regular station on official business, in addition to necessary cost of transportation. When transportation by steamship, government transport, or otherwise, includes subsistence, no per diem shall be paid or allowed for such portion of the journey, or when subsistence is furnished from a government mess of a held party.